GEORGE BOSWORTH CHURCHILL
Churchill, George Bosworth (1866-1925), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Worcester County,
Mass., October 24, 1866; attended the grammar and high schools, and was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in
1889; taught in the Worcester High School until 1892; moved to Philadelphia and taught in the William Penn Charter
School, and at the same time took a postgraduate course at the University of Pennsylvania 1892-1894; went to Europe
and studied in the University of Strassburg, Germany, in 1894 and 1895, and then attended the University of Berlin,
Germany, 1895-1897; returned to the United States and became assistant editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1897
and 1898; member of the faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925; moderator of Amherst 1905-1925; member of the State
senate 1917-1919; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass., July 1,
1925; interment in Wildwood Cemetery.
Father: Ezra Churchill b. abt 1827 Massachusetts
Mother: Myra J. Bosworth b. abt 1835 Massachusetts
Spouse: Mabelle Ellen Whittier
Born: 10 Feb 1870 in Worcester, Worchester, Massachusetts
Died: 21 Apr 1946 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Marriage: 24 Aug 1893
Children Sex Birth
Rosamund C Churchill F abt 1910 in Massachusetts
Hildegarde Ellen Churchill F 6 Nov 1900 in Amhurst, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Sources:
U.S. Federal Census Family Collections LDS The Political Graveyard
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